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perspective, we are supporting people in those situations and | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
playing our role in resettlement through our scheme. Questions to be | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Prime Minister. This morning I had meetings with | :00:09. | :00:20. | |
colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this House, | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
I will have more meetings today. With unemployment falling by over | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
60% at over 5000 new apprenticeships, read it is doing | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
well and I am holding my third to spare in a few weeks with 25 | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
companies taking part. Will my right honourable friend agree that we have | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
made a good start but we must not be complacent and we should continue to | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
get good quality jobs. I very much agree with my honourable friend. If | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
we look at the West Woodlands and take an employment figures today, we | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
can see the claimant count has come down since 2010 by 91,000 people, | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
and I am sure the House will welcome an update on unemployment figures. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
-- West Midlands. Compared with 2010, there are now 2 million | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
370,000 more people in work than when I became Prime Minister, and | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
the claimant town is down 18,000 in the last month, figures which I am | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
sure will be welcome right across the House. -- down. Could the Prime | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
Minister tell the House how many people will die from respiratory | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
disease as a result of air pollution before this country meets its legal | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
obligations on air quality by 2025? I don't have those diggers to hand | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
but what I do know is that we need to make progress on air quality and | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
that is why we have the new regulations on diesel engines which | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
is helping, the steady decarbonisation of our power sector | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
which will help, and why we do have very strong legislation already in | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
terms of making sure we have clean air particularly in our cities. If I | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
could help the Prime Minister, the sad truth is that half a million | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
people will die because of this country's failure to comply with | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
international law on air pollution. How much does air pollution cost our | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
economy every year? Of course it costs our economy billions because | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
people are being injured, and that is why we have the new clean air | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
zones and why we are seeing emissions from cars coming down and | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
I give him one example, if we deliver in terms of our carbon | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
reduction plan for electricity generation, we are going to see | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
something like an 85% reduction in carbon between 1990 and 20 30. That | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
will give us one of the best green records anywhere in the world. The | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Royal College of Physicians estimates that air pollution cost | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
our economy ?20 billion a year. The failure to deal with air pollution | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
is killing people. A few days ago, London face a severe smog warning. | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
His friend the Mayor of London has presided over a legal breach of air | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
quality in the capital everyday 's 2012, so why can't the Prime | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Minister Harri up action to make us comply with international law and | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
help the health of the people of this country? -- hurry. It was the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Tory government in the 1950s that passed the clean air at and I am | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
sure we will take further action, including the clean air zones, lower | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
car emissions, and why are we able to do this, not only because we care | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
about the environment but because we have an economy strong enough to pay | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
for the improvements. We all welcome the clean air act of 1956, but | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
things have moved on a bit since then! | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
LAUGHTER The government are now threatened with being taken to court | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
for its failure to comply with international law on air pollution. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
He is proposing to spend tens if not hundreds of millions of pounds on | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
public money -- of public money on defending the indefensible. Why not | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
invest the money in cleaner air and better air quality for everyone in | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
this country? We are investing money in clean air in this country, we are | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
phasing out the use of coal-fired power stations, far in advance | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
what other European countries are doing, blazing a trail with | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
renewable energy, the clean energy we are investing in. All these | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
things will make a difference. You can only do this if you have a | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
strong economy able to pay for these things. If the government and Prime | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Minister are so keen on renewable and clean energy, could he explain | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
why on Monday the House approved new regulations to allow communities | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
every so on clean energy projects like Shaw wins? I got a question | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
from Angela from Lancaster who asked the Prime Minister this... If I were | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
you, I would listen. Will the Prime Minister of the same right of veto | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
to have committed the and communities like hers across the | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
country on fracking? We have a proper plan in system for deciding | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
these things. He wants to know what is happening in terms of renewable | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
energy. 99% of the solar panels in this country were installed since I | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
became Prime Minister, that is the green record we have. The UK now has | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the second largest ultra-low emission market anywhere in the | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
European Union, we have seen one of the strongest growth in renewable | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
energy, but isn't it remarkable? Five questions in and no welcome for | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
the fall in unemployment. No mention of the 31 million people now in work | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
and the fact we have more women and young people in work. That more | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
people are bringing home a salary and wage and paying less taxes. Not | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
a words from the party that I thought was Labour. The party | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
getting people back into work is on this side of the House! Mr Speaker, | :06:48. | :06:57. | |
the questions to the Prime Minister are these: he once boasted that he | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
led the greenest government ever. No Husky was face said from it his | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
cuddles! Foods he explain why a damning report has been produced | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
when it comes to green energy, saying major investors describe this | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
policy is risky when it comes to cuts and changes. Why is this | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
government so failing the renewable energy sector is to mark -- | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
critique. -- could he explain. Any look at the figures will find this | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
government has a remarkable record in green energy. Let me take the | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
climate at said that Britain is the second best country in the world for | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
tackling climate change after them up. | :07:55. | :08:49. | |
Thanks to our long term economic plan for the Midlands engine, we | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
have been able to invest in our public services in the west | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Midlands, helping to build a strong NHS, reform our education system and | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
give our police the resources they need. Unemployment is down again and | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
my beautiful Lichfield. And yesterday was an absolute first for | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
the West Midlands, when the whole region co-operatives to be sent 33 | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
investment schemes at an international conference in Cannes, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
which will create a further 178,000 jobs. What more can the Prime | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Minister do to support the Midlands engine, apart from ensuring, of | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
course, that we never get a Labour government? I am glad my honourable | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
friend chose to be here rather than in Cannes. Last week, we had a deal | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
signed between Chinese investors and an automotive company to create 1000 | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
jobs in Coventry. My right honourable friend the Business | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
Secretary was in Staffordshire opening a coffee factory that will | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
bring in 400 jobs. And we have that deal with the West Midlands which | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
will see significant new powers devolved to the combined authority | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
and the directly elected mayor. We are changing the way our country is | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
run, devolving power, building the strength of our great cities, and | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Birmingham is the second city of our country. | :10:15. | :10:43. | |
In Libya, we want to see the formation of a unity government. | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
There is progress with the Prime Minister, who can now lead that | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
government. We want to hear from him what assistance should be given. In | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
countries like Britain, France, America and Italy will help that new | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
government. Right now, Libya is a people smuggling route which is bad | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
for Europe and bad for us, and also you have the growth of Daesh in | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
Libya, which is bad for us and bad for Europe. If we had any plans for | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
troop training or troop deployment, we would come to the House and | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
discuss it. The UK spent 13 times more bombing Libya than securing the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
peace after the overthrow of the hated Gaddafi regime. The critics of | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
UK policy even include President Obama of the United States. So will | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the Prime Minister give a commitment to bring the issue of any potential | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
Libya deployment of any British forces to Parliament for approval | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
before giving the green light for that to happen? Yes or no? I am | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
happy to give that commitment, as we always do. I am very clear that it | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
was right to take action to prevent the slaughter that Colonel Gaddafi | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
would have carried out against his people in Benghazi. Of course, Libya | :12:10. | :12:18. | |
is in a state that is very concerning and everyone has to take | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
responsibility for that. After the conflict, the British government did | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
support the training of Libyan troops. We did bring the Libyan | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Prime Minister to the G8 in Northern Ireland. We went to the United | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
Nations and passed resolutions to help that government, but so far, we | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
have not been able to bring about that government of National accord | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
that can bring stability to that country. But is it in our interests | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
to help that government do that? Yes, and we should work with others | :12:46. | :12:56. | |
to deliver it. My constituency, which was won for the first time | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
ever by the Conservatives, could be transformed along with the rest of | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
the region by the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon. Having signed a deal | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
yesterday for Cardiff, could the Prime Minister give an assurance | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
that the government review on tidal lagoons will do everything to ensure | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
that the wider Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project fits the UK energy | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
strategy, and does he recognise the economic potential this will bring | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
to the Swansea Bay region? I thank my honourable friend. I remember | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
visiting his constituency after his victory last year. We went to a | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
brewery for a mild celebration. He is right that tidal lagoons do have | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
potential. We launched a review to better understand the technology. We | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
will work closely with developers to make a decision on Swansea. Wrexham | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
in north Wales is a strong manufacturing and exporting region. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
But its growth is constrained by lack of access to airports in | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
north-west England. The office for rail regulation is currently | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
considering applications for rail pass from north Wales. Will the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Prime Minister support a cross-party campaign for fairness for north | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Wales and for access to airports in north-west England? The former | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
Secretary of State for Wales, the honourable member for Clwyd West, | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
came to see me recently about this. There is a strong argument for how | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
we can better connects north Wales with the north-west of England and | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
make sure we build on the economic strength of both. I will look | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
carefully at what he and my right Number Ten say for the potential for | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
rail capacity. -- what my right honourable friend says. Last week, a | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
High Court judge ruled in favour of ACPO of the great two listed former | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
north Wales Hospital in Denbigh. Years of neglect by its offshore | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
company owner resulted in the building being brought to the point | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
of collapse. Thanks to the ground-breaking work carried out by | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Denbighshire County Council and the princes regeneration trust, that | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
future should now be safeguarded. But what can the Prime Minister do | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
to vent buildings such as these, which are deemed national assets, | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
from falling into the hands of those who are not fit and proper | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
guardians, particularly those outside of the control of our | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
judicial system? It is an important point. While heritage is a devolved | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
matter, it is great news that these buildings will be safeguarded. I | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
understand that they were bought in 1996 by a company and the left | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
abandoned. As he says, that is no way to treat a grade two star | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
A-listed status building. That is why we have powers in place for | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
compulsory purchase orders. In this case, Denbighshire council were | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
right to use them. Councils should have the confidence that they have | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
these measures and should be prepared to use them. Two weeks ago, | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
in front of the education select committee, the head of Ofsted, Sir | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Michael Wilshaw, said that 16 to 19 education should be done in a school | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
based environment and not in an FE institution. He then said that some | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
pupils had towards the FE institution, do badly, get lost and | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
drop out. Does the Prime Minister Greek? I think we need a range of | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
settings for A-levels and post-16 study. There are a lot of secondary | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
schools in our country who would like to have a sixth form, and I | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
think there are great benefits, particularly for the 11-year-olds | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
going to secondary school who can look to the top of the school and | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
see what girls and boys are achieving, what A-level choices they | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
are making, what futures they are thinking of. And for many people, it | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
is inspiring to go to a school with a sixth form. But let's have the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
choice. That is why the academy is Asian of schools was important, | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
because it gives schools the ability to make choices for our children. In | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
apprenticeship week, I'm sure the Prime Minister will join my faxed to | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
the employers who project six -- 6500 apprenticeships in 2010 and all | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
the apprentices themselves, including my first apprentice, Laura | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Pearson, now Gloucester's youngest ever city councillor. Looking | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
forward, would my right honourable friend do all he can to hasten the | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
introduction of associate nurses, who will make a huge difference to | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
the NHS and our health sector more broadly? The south-west has | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
delivered over 280,000 apprenticeship starts since 2010. It | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
is absolutely pulling its weight and well done to his constituents for | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
doing that. He's also right about the introduction of associate | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
nurses. We working with health England to offer another route into | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
nursing which could see an expansion of our NHS. According to statistics | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
provided by the Prime Minister library -- by the House library, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
there are many problem gamblers in the UK. Can the Prime Minister say | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
when he will bring forward a 2010 report and does he agree that the | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
money from dormant betting account should be used to support those | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
whose lives have been destroyed by gambling? We will study this report | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
carefully. We did take action in the last parliament to deal with problem | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
gambling in terms of the planning system and the way fixed odds | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
betting is terminals worked. I'm happy to keep examining this issue | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
and act on the evidence, and I will discuss it with the Secretary of | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
State for Culture, Media and Sport. The systematic killing of Christians | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
and other minority groups by the so-called Islamic State across the | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Middle East has reached unprecedented proportions. So the | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
action being taken by her Majesty's government is just. But what more | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
will my right honourable friend do, working with the international | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
community, to halt this genocide being committed against Christians | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
by what I would rather call the Satanic day? My honourable friend is | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
right to draw attention to what Daesh is doing in terms of | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
persecuting Christians and others, not least those of other faiths and | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
indeed Muslims who they disagree with. We must keep to the plan. We | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
can see that we have shrunk the amount of territory Daesh have in | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Iraq by 40%. We are also seeing progress in this area, but this will | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
take time. We must show the patients to make sure we rid the world of | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
this evil death cult. The Prime Minister's energy policy is a | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
shambles. It is wholly dependent upon the troubled and eye-wateringly | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
expensive new nuclear plant at Hinckley. There is barely a plan A, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
let alone a plan B. Is the Prime Minister seeking to build the | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
world's most expensive power station, or the world's biggest | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
white elephant? We are planning to continue with a successful energy | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
policy which is seeing cheaper energy and lower carbon at the same | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
time. The whole strength of the Hinckley deal is that there is no | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
payment unless this power station goes ahead and is built efficiently | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
by EDF. I think that will be good for our energy supplies, because if | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
you want to have energy at low cost and low carbon, you need strong | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
nuclear energy at the heart of your system. Antibiotic research UK, | :20:42. | :20:54. | |
situated in my constituency, is the world's first charity to tackle | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
antimicrobial resistance, a looming global danger of disaster movie star | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
proportions. With the Prime Minister agreed to meet with me to see how we | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
can fund their vital research so that this time, it is not the | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Americans that save the world, but the British? I am happy to meet with | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
my honourable friend. He is right to raise this issue. Because of the | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
growing resistance to antibiotics and the fact that in so many cases | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
now, antibiotics are not working, we do face a genuine medical emergency | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
around the world. That is why Britain must put this issue on the | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
agenda of the G20, why it was part of our discussions with the Chinese | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
when they made the state visit last year, and why we are investing ?50 | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
million in an innovation fund, working with the Chinese government | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
take this forward. I hope the organisation in his constituency can | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
benefit from some of this research. The Prime Minister will know that | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
his Home Secretary is once again trying to deport Afghan interpreter | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
is seeking sanctuary in the UK. These brave people risk their lives | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
serving our Armed Forces, yet they now face being sent back to the | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
mercy of the Taliban or to join thousands rotting in refugee camps. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Is this how Britain should repay those who put their lives on the | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
line for us? Instead, will he do whatever is possible to ensure they | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
are offered safe haven here? What we did in the last government, in which | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
his party played a role, was that we agreed a set of conditions for | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Afghan interpreters to be able to come to the UK and be given | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
sanctuary. But we also provided for a scheme so that those who wanted to | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
stay and help rebuild their country were able to do so. I would still | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
defend that scheme, even if his party has changed his mind. My | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
constituent, Debra Reid and her sister, watched her mother waste | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
away in hospital due to inadequate where after a fall, which has been | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
admitted by the consultant in charge. Last week, my right | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
honourable friend the Health Secretary hosted a global summit on | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
patient safety and announced the creation of a new health care safety | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
investigation branch. What more can the government do to ensure patient | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
safety is at the heart of the NHS and prevent such instances occurring | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
in the future? My honourable friend is right to raise cases like this. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
They are horrendous when they take place and should be properly | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
investigated. We then need to learn the lessons. We have made progress. | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
The proportion of patients being harmed in the NHS has dropped by a | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
third in the last two years and MRSA bloodstream infections have fallen | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
by over half in the last five years. But my right honourable friend the | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Health Secretary is right to hold this conference and to examine what | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
other practices have done in order to have a zero accident safety | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
culture. We have seen this in other walks of life, and it is time we | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
applied it to the NHS. Just eight days ago, Oliver tableau popped to | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
the shops. He was brutally shot dead. The community are shocked and | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
saddened by this murder of an innocent young man. They have asked | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
for more community local policing and more youth engagement. Will the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Prime Minister meet with me to discuss how we can make our streets | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
safer? It is an important point. In London, we have actually seen a | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
reduction in gun crime. Our hearts go out to the family of Oliver | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Tetlow, who she talked about. We have seen better policing in our | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
communities. We must keep that up and I will arrange whatever meeting | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
is best to make sure the voices she mentioned are listened to. As my | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
right honourable friend will be aware, highways England are | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
consulting on a new lower Thames crossing, with their preferred | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
option being so-called option C, which will dived 14% of traffic from | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
the Dartford crossing. Does my right 'em agree that before spending | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
billions on the new crossing, we should sort out the problem at the | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
existing crossing -- does my right honourable friend Greek? It would | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
improve air quality. Will he meet with me to discuss matters further? | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
We need to tackle congestion and air quality and stationary traffic is | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
more polluting than air traffic so sorting out the Dartford Crossing is | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
important but we should look at options for a new crossing. Two | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
options are on the table and these are the best available options. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Highways England have looked at the locations in terms of their economic | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
impact and we look forward to seeing what they recommend and then we can | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
make progress. A vital step of our trees for our country's economy and | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
we need traffic to run smoothly. On reflection, was it wise for the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Chancellor to bank on the theory of ?27 billion windfall when it has | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
only gone and vanished in the last three months? We will hear a lot | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
from the Chancellor in a minute or two but I would say that we have an | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
economy that is an immensely strong, facing a very difficult set of world | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
circumstances. Here in Great Britain, when you look at it, and | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
employment at 5%, inflation and virtually 0%, unemployment figures | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
show unemployment falling again and wages growing at 2%. That is a | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
better record than many other countries in the developed world can | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
boast, and much of that is down to the plan set out by my right | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
honourable friend and followed for six years. Last week, I welcomed in | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
international delegation to the Eden Project to promote Cornwall for | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
international tourists. Visitor numbers are up in Cornwall but there | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
is more we can do to attract overseas visitors out of London and | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
into the regions of our country. Can I ask the Prime Minister what more | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
the government can do to support the tourist industry and get more | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
overseas visitors to come to Cornwall? My honourable friend knows | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
that there is nothing finer than going out of London and going down | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
to Cornwall and no better place than the beach when the sun is setting | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
and the waves are big. And my phone is working. He is right. And the | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
Daily Mail photographer had gone home, that helps! We need to get | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
people who come to our country to visit outside of London and that is | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
what some of the new schemes we have announced, like the ?40 billion | :27:56. | :28:06. | |
Discover England fund have done. In 2014 we exported food products, with | :28:07. | :28:14. | |
73% of the total going to other Europeans dates, no wonder that 71% | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
of food and drink Federation members want us to avoid Brexit. Do you | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
think the prospects of further its or strengthened by staying in the | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
European Union? The view from food manufacturers and from farmers and | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
the wider business community it up yesterday said the four Europe, is | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
very clear, and the arguments on food are particularly careful eye 20 | :28:50. | :29:01. | |
million cans without, and without any problems, and we should not put | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
it at risk when we look at alternatives to being part of the | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
single market, like Canada, we can see there are restrictions, for | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
instance, quotas on beef, and I don't want to see that being applied | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
to British farmers who have so much to be proud of. Does my right | :29:20. | :29:31. | |
honourable friend agree that having an inspirational men's or can | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
provide young people with the opportunities they would never have | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
benefited from before? -- mentor. Can he tell me how the 14 million | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
government will be putting into a new national mentoring scheme will | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
benefit some of the most disadvantaged children in our | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
society? I agree. One of the most important thing is schools can do in | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
the future is encourage mentors from business, from the public sector, | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
from charities, into schools to give that extra one-on-one help that | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
young people benefit from. I was in Southwark yesterday at an academy to | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
see how well it is going, where every child studying GCSEs and gets | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
a mentor and it makes a huge difference to the life chances of | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
the children. The ?14 million we are putting in should allow 25 thousand | :30:30. | :30:35. | |
children to have a mentor. All schools should look at this. There | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
are so many people in business, in the public sector, in charities, | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
reluctant take part of this. The Prime Minister would like to suggest | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
he is the champion of localism but he's government is seeking to gag | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
local communities with a policy that stands out sent. -- stamps out. | :30:56. | :31:04. | |
Dissent. Can he explain the rejection for Academy schools and | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
why there views will count for nothing in the future? When are you | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
argue that academy schools are true devolution. -- I would argue. You | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
end up with teachers having full control over the school, making | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
decisions about the school, and if that does not convince her, look at | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
the result. If you look at primary sponsored academies, they have | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
better records and are improving faster. 88% of the academy schools | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
are rated rude or outstanding. This is true devolution, making sure | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
every headteacher is in charge of their school and riding a great | :31:46. | :31:53. | |
education we want for our children. -- providing. My constituent has | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer and has shown outstanding | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
courage in her fight against the disease but she did not get the | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
support of compassion of the employer who wanted to dismiss | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
certain capability procedures. Now her former partner is trying to get | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
the House they own together repossessed, leaving her homeless | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
while dying. Would the Prime Minister agree with me that we need | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
better protection for people who are diagnosed with terminal illnesses | :32:23. | :32:26. | |
and would you join with me and Jackie in supporting the changes in | :32:27. | :32:34. | |
outlined in the TUC campaign? The points you make are right and I will | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
look very carefully at the case she raises. In all of these things, as | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
well as having clear rules, you also need organisations, whether it is | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
employers or housing associations or landlords or trade unions to act | :32:48. | :32:52. | |
with genuine compassion and think of the person, the human being at the | :32:53. | :32:54. | |
other end of the telephone. Order! | :32:55. | :33:11. |